How do you make sense of Resurrection? This dreamlike feature seems rather inscrutable, but there’s no denying how breathtaking it is to witness all the images director Bi Gan offers on screen. These images form the memories of one of the last dreamers on Earth, also known as a Deliriant, one of the few who refused to trade dreams for immortality. Now monstrous and dying, this dreamer has lived a long life, with each chapter mirroring the styles and direction of cinema. Shifting from silent expressionist sets, to wartime noir, and ending in a neon-lit vampire romance, Resurrection obsesses and contemplates over dreams and the senses, pondering the film medium’s capacity to capture something totally elusive.
"Arriving at a moment when the movies have seldom felt more finite or more vulnerable... this astonishing work insists -- in its title, and in the heroic force of Bi’s artistry and ambition -- that every end really is a new beginning."
— Justin Chang
"Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially a glorified anthology film. But oh, how glorious its sights and sounds truly are."
— Josh Slater-Williams
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making.
Oscars
2 nominations
Golden Globes
1 nomination
Nat. Board of Review
2 wins
NYFCC
1 nomination
